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Pro-Life, Pro-Choice Progresshttp://www.slate.com/blogs/humannature/2010/11/18/pro_life_pro_choice_progress.html
<p> Recently, pro-life and pro-choice thinkers met at Princeton University for a frank, open-minded discussion of their differences and possible areas of collaboration. It was a useful conversation, illuminating several steps each side could take to advance a common agenda. Here are the takeaways for <a href="http://www.slate.com/id/2275072/"> pro-lifers </a> —and&nbsp;for <a href="http://www.slate.com/id/2275256/"> pro-choicers </a> . </p>Thu, 18 Nov 2010 14:18:00 GMThttp://www.slate.com/blogs/humannature/2010/11/18/pro_life_pro_choice_progress.htmlWilliam Saletan2010-11-18T14:18:00ZNews and PoliticsPro-Life, Pro-Choice Progress211101118001William SaletanHuman NatureHuman Naturehttp://www.slate.com/blogs/blogs/humannature/archive/2010/11/18/pro-life-pro-choice-progress.aspxfalsefalsefalseSodomy and Orgasms: Alternative Theorieshttp://www.slate.com/blogs/humannature/2010/10/12/sodomy_and_orgasms_alternative_theories.html
<p> Well, shame on me. Not for talking about sodomy—that taboo seems to be fading fast—but for doubting that women love it. These women are now coming forward to affirm that they're into it for their own pleasure, thank you very much. And they aren't alone. Bloggers, blog readers, and <strong> <em> Slate </em> </strong> commenters are offering lots of other theories to explain the orgasm data. </p>
<p> More <a href="http://www.slate.com/id/2270622/"> here </a> . </p>Tue, 12 Oct 2010 14:19:00 GMThttp://www.slate.com/blogs/humannature/2010/10/12/sodomy_and_orgasms_alternative_theories.htmlWilliam Saletan2010-10-12T14:19:00ZNews and PoliticsSodomy and Orgasms: Alternative Theories211101012001William SaletanHuman NatureHuman Naturehttp://www.slate.com/blogs/blogs/humannature/archive/2010/10/12/sodomy-and-orgasms-alternative-theories.aspxfalsefalsefalseSodomy and Orgasmshttp://www.slate.com/blogs/humannature/2010/10/07/sodomy_and_orgasms.html
<p> In 1992, 16 percent of women aged 18-24 said they'd tried anal sex. Now 20 percent of women aged 18-19 say they've done it, and by ages 20-24, the number is 40 percent. In 1992, the highest percentage of women in any age group who admitted to anal sex was 33. In 2002, it was 35. Now it's 46. ... </p>
<p> Check out the orgasm data. Among women who had vaginal sex in their last encounter, the percentage who said they reached orgasm was 65. Among those who received oral sex, it was 81. But among those who had anal sex, it was 94. Anal sex outscored oral. </p>
<p> More <a href="http://www.slate.com/id/2269951/"> here </a> . </p>Thu, 07 Oct 2010 12:56:00 GMThttp://www.slate.com/blogs/humannature/2010/10/07/sodomy_and_orgasms.htmlWilliam Saletan2010-10-07T12:56:00ZNews and PoliticsSodomy and Orgasms211101007001William SaletanHuman NatureHuman Naturehttp://www.slate.com/blogs/blogs/humannature/archive/2010/10/07/sodomy-and-orgasms.aspxfalsefalsefalseThe Invisible Roommatehttp://www.slate.com/blogs/humannature/2010/10/05/the_invisible_roommate.html
<p> Like countless college freshmen before him, Tyler Clementi needed a place to make out, but he had a roommate. So he asked his roommate to clear out of their Rutgers dorm room for a couple of hours. The roommate, Dharun Ravi, obliged him. But Ravi left something behind: his computer. It had a webcam and an Internet connection. That's how Ravi got back into the room. He never touched the door or window. He just tapped into the webcam from a friend's computer down the hall. </p>
<p> Today's freshmen are grappling with something much stranger than being gay. They're growing up in a world where people are with you even when they aren't. </p>
<p> More <a href="http://www.slate.com/id/2269301/"> here </a> . </p>Wed, 06 Oct 2010 02:24:00 GMThttp://www.slate.com/blogs/humannature/2010/10/05/the_invisible_roommate.htmlWilliam Saletan2010-10-06T02:24:00ZNews and PoliticsThe Invisible Roommate211101005001William SaletanHuman NatureHuman Naturehttp://www.slate.com/blogs/blogs/humannature/archive/2010/10/05/the-invisible-roommate.aspxfalsefalsefalseStem-Cell Throwbackhttp://www.slate.com/blogs/humannature/2010/08/29/stem_cell_throwback.html
<p> The stem-cell ruling, issued Monday by U.S. District Chief Judge Royce Lamberth, says that federal funding of research using cells derived from destroyed embryos violates federal law. Pro-lifers are ecstatic. &quot;Court Strikes Down Obama Administration Stem Cell Policy,&quot; crows Americans United for Life. But this ruling goes way beyond Obama. It voids Bush's stem-cell policy, too. And it does so on flimsy grounds with sloppy reasoning. </p>
<p> More <a href="http://www.slate.com/id/2264996/"> here </a> and <a href="http://www.slate.com/id/2265297/"> here </a> . </p>Sun, 29 Aug 2010 15:58:00 GMThttp://www.slate.com/blogs/humannature/2010/08/29/stem_cell_throwback.htmlWilliam Saletan2010-08-29T15:58:00ZNews and PoliticsStem-Cell Throwback211100829001William SaletanHuman NatureHuman Naturehttp://www.slate.com/blogs/blogs/humannature/archive/2010/08/29/stem-cell-throwback.aspxfalsefalsefalseIs Donald Duck a Pervert?http://www.slate.com/blogs/humannature/2010/08/25/is_donald_duck_a_pervert.html
<p> We've seen this pattern before: an allegation of groping, followed by a bunch of other people recalling similar abuse. The initial charge makes the rest of the claims credible. But sometimes the allegations, and even the triggered memories, are false. That's what happened to Tigger. Don't let it happen to Donald Duck. </p>
<p> More <a href="http://www.slate.com/id/2263746"> here </a> . </p>Wed, 25 Aug 2010 04:38:00 GMThttp://www.slate.com/blogs/humannature/2010/08/25/is_donald_duck_a_pervert.htmlWilliam Saletan2010-08-25T04:38:00ZNews and PoliticsIs Donald Duck a Pervert?211100825002William SaletanHuman NatureHuman Naturehttp://www.slate.com/blogs/blogs/humannature/archive/2010/08/25/is-donald-duck-a-pervert.aspxfalsefalsefalseThe Oil Spill's Ironic Endinghttp://www.slate.com/blogs/humannature/2010/08/25/the_oil_spill_s_ironic_ending.html
<p> In early May, BP began drilling a <a href="http://www.bp.com/genericarticle.do?categoryId=2012968&amp;contentId=7061778"> relief well </a> to stop the leak. Two weeks later, under orders from the government, it initiated a <a href="http://www.bp.com/genericarticle.do?categoryId=2012968&amp;contentId=7062147"> second </a> relief well. The second well now extends 15,874 feet below the water's surface, and the first has reached a depth of <a href="http://www.bp.com/genericarticle.do?categoryId=2012968&amp;contentId=7063829"> 17,864 feet </a> —just <a href="http://www.bp.com/liveassets/bp_internet/globalbp/globalbp_uk_english/incident_response/STAGING/local_assets/downloads_pdfs/technical_briefing_transcript_18_07_0730CDT.pdf"> 100 feet </a> from its destination. The point was to kill the leak by pumping mud and cement into the bottom of the troubled well. But now that the cap is in place, BP and the government are considering a &quot; <a href="http://www.bp.com/liveassets/bp_internet/globalbp/globalbp_uk_english/incident_response/STAGING/local_assets/downloads_pdfs/BP_technical_audio_07192010.pdf"> static kill </a> &quot;—pumping in the fatal mud from the top. Three months of drilling for nothing. </p>
<p> More <a href="http://www.slate.com/id/2261058/"> here </a> . </p>Wed, 25 Aug 2010 04:30:00 GMThttp://www.slate.com/blogs/humannature/2010/08/25/the_oil_spill_s_ironic_ending.htmlWilliam Saletan2010-08-25T04:30:00ZNews and PoliticsThe Oil Spill's Ironic Ending211100825001William SaletanHuman NatureHuman Naturehttp://www.slate.com/blogs/blogs/humannature/archive/2010/08/25/the-oil-spill-s-ironic-ending.aspxfalsefalsefalseAbility, Heredity, and &quot;Race&quot;http://www.slate.com/blogs/humannature/2010/07/14/ability_heredity_and_race.html
<p> There's nothing unusual about dismissing race as social construct. Racism watchdogs do it all the time. But they do it precisely to deny hereditary differences between blacks and whites. The authors of this study are <em> affirming </em> hereditary differences. That's what they mean by &quot;survival fitness in different parts of the globe during thousands of years.&quot; Evolution in Europe and evolution in Africa produced different results. </p>
<p> More <a href="http://www.slate.com/id/2260314/"> here </a> . </p>Wed, 14 Jul 2010 16:46:00 GMThttp://www.slate.com/blogs/humannature/2010/07/14/ability_heredity_and_race.htmlWilliam Saletan2010-07-14T16:46:00ZNews and PoliticsAbility, Heredity, and &quot;Race&quot;211100714001William SaletanHuman NatureHuman Naturehttp://www.slate.com/blogs/blogs/humannature/archive/2010/07/14/ability-heredity-and-race.aspxfalsefalsefalseSex, Food, and Shamehttp://www.slate.com/blogs/humannature/2010/07/13/sex_food_and_shame.html
<p> Knee-jerk denunciations of shame, sin, and disgust are a tired and shallow kind of feminism. The food analogy makes that pretty clear. You can try to paint every moral criticism of porn or sexual extremity as an attack on women, but when the same criticisms are offered against men in eating contests-mindless orgies, commercial exploitation, abuse of the body-it's time to open your mind to the possibility that, no, this isn't just about patriarchy or controlling sex. </p>
<p> More <a href="http://www.slate.com/id/2260221/"> here </a> . </p>Tue, 13 Jul 2010 19:09:00 GMThttp://www.slate.com/blogs/humannature/2010/07/13/sex_food_and_shame.htmlWilliam Saletan2010-07-13T19:09:00ZNews and PoliticsSex, Food, and Shame211100713001William SaletanHuman NatureHuman Naturehttp://www.slate.com/blogs/blogs/humannature/archive/2010/07/13/sex-food-and-shame.aspxfalsefalsefalseMajor League Eatinghttp://www.slate.com/blogs/humannature/2010/07/08/major_league_eating.html
<p> Fifty years from now, when historians are looking for a moment that captures the depravity of our age—the gluttony, the self-destruction, the craving for worthless fame—it won't be bathhouses, <em> Big Love </em> , or AdultFriendFinder. It'll be Joey Chestnut stuffing that 68 <sup> th </sup> hot dog down his unresisting gullet, live on ESPN. </p>
<p> More <a href="http://www.slate.com/id/2259695/"> here </a> . </p>Thu, 08 Jul 2010 11:49:00 GMThttp://www.slate.com/blogs/humannature/2010/07/08/major_league_eating.htmlWilliam Saletan2010-07-08T11:49:00ZNews and PoliticsMajor League Eating211100708001William SaletanHuman NatureHuman Naturehttp://www.slate.com/blogs/blogs/humannature/archive/2010/07/08/major-league-eating.aspxfalsefalsefalseKagan's Abortion Spinhttp://www.slate.com/blogs/humannature/2010/07/06/kagan_s_abortion_spin.html
<p> Fourteen years ago, to protect President Clinton's position on partial-birth abortions, Elena Kagan doctored a statement by the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists. ... All of us should be embarrassed that a sentence written by a White House aide now stands enshrined in the jurisprudence of the Supreme Court, erroneously credited with scientific authorship and rigor. Kagan should be most chastened of all. She fooled the nation's highest judges. As one of them, she had better make sure they aren't fooled again. </p>
<p> More <a href="http://www.slate.com/id/2259495/"> here </a> . </p>Tue, 06 Jul 2010 15:02:00 GMThttp://www.slate.com/blogs/humannature/2010/07/06/kagan_s_abortion_spin.htmlWilliam Saletan2010-07-06T15:02:00ZNews and PoliticsKagan's Abortion Spin211100706001William SaletanHuman NatureHuman Naturehttp://www.slate.com/blogs/blogs/humannature/archive/2010/07/06/kagan-s-abortion-spin.aspxfalsefalsefalseBlood and Bigotryhttp://www.slate.com/blogs/humannature/2010/06/21/blood_and_bigotry.html
<p> According to the FDA, men who have had sex with men &quot;are, as a group, at increased risk for HIV, hepatitis B and certain other infections.&quot; To protect blood recipients from this risk, their blood must be excluded. This kind of group-based screening is a longstanding practice in blood regulation. Over the years, we've prohibited donors on the basis of nationality as well as sexuality. There's nothing wrong with such categorical exclusions, according to the FDA, as long as they make the blood supply safer. But if that's true, why not screen donors by race? </p>
<p> More <a href="http://www.slate.com/id/2257655/"> here </a> . </p>Mon, 21 Jun 2010 13:24:00 GMThttp://www.slate.com/blogs/humannature/2010/06/21/blood_and_bigotry.htmlWilliam Saletan2010-06-21T13:24:00ZNews and PoliticsBlood and Bigotry211100621001William SaletanHuman NatureHuman Naturehttp://www.slate.com/blogs/blogs/humannature/archive/2010/06/21/blood-and-bigotry.aspxfalsefalsefalseThe Folly of Deepwater Drillinghttp://www.slate.com/blogs/humannature/2010/06/09/the_folly_of_deepwater_drilling.html
<p> From the comfort of your home or office, through the magic of Web video, you can watch the disaster unfolding on the floor of the Gulf of Mexico. What you're seeing—a leak that has spewed more than 36 million gallons of oil into the Gulf since April 20—is taking place a mile below the water's surface. The temperature there is just above freezing. The pressure is 2,300 pounds per square inch. ... You can see the spewing oil, but you can't touch it. None of us can. We've opened a hole in the earth that we can't close. </p>
<p> More <a href="http://www.slate.com/id/2255929/"> here </a> . </p>Wed, 09 Jun 2010 13:25:00 GMThttp://www.slate.com/blogs/humannature/2010/06/09/the_folly_of_deepwater_drilling.htmlWilliam Saletan2010-06-09T13:25:00ZNews and PoliticsThe Folly of Deepwater Drilling211100609001William SaletanHuman NatureHuman Naturehttp://www.slate.com/blogs/blogs/humannature/archive/2010/06/09/the-folly-of-deepwater-drilling.aspxfalsefalsefalseThe Memory Doctorhttp://www.slate.com/blogs/humannature/2010/06/03/the_memory_doctor.html
<p> Do you trust your memories? Would you send a defendant to jail based on the recollection of a single witness? If an adult woman suddenly remembered her father molesting her 20 years earlier, would you believe it? </p>
<p> These are some of the questions raised in <b> <i> Slate </i> </b> 's eight-part series, <i> The Memory Doctor </i> . The series focuses on Elizabeth Loftus, a psychologist who has challenged the reliability of eyewitness testimony and recovered memories of sexual abuse. From the introduction: </p>
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<p> Loftus set out to prove that such memories could have been planted. To do so, she had to replicate the process. She had to make people remember, as sincerely and convincingly as any sworn witness, things that had never happened. And she succeeded. Her experiments shattered the legal system's credulity. Thanks to her ingenuity and persistence, the witch hunts of the recovered-memory era subsided. </p>
<p> But the experiments didn't stop. Loftus and her collaborators had become experts at planting memories. Couldn't they do something good with that power? So they began to practice deception for real. With a simple autobiographical tweak—altering people's recollections of childhood eating experiences—they embarked on a new project: making the world healthier and happier. </p>
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<p> To begin reading <i> The Memory Doctor </i> , click <a href="http://www.slate.com/id/2251881"> here </a> . Or you can start with Slate's <a href="http://www.slate.com/id/2254054/"> memory-editing experiment </a> , which kicked off the series. </p>Thu, 03 Jun 2010 13:33:00 GMThttp://www.slate.com/blogs/humannature/2010/06/03/the_memory_doctor.htmlWilliam Saletan2010-06-03T13:33:00ZNews and PoliticsThe Memory Doctor211100603002William SaletanHuman NatureHuman Naturehttp://www.slate.com/blogs/blogs/humannature/archive/2010/06/03/the-memory-doctor.aspxfalsefalsefalseHow Slate Edited Historyhttp://www.slate.com/blogs/humannature/2010/06/03/how_slate_edited_history.html
<p> In <em> 1984 </em> , George Orwell told the story of Winston Smith, an employee in the propaganda office of a totalitarian regime. Smith's job at the fictional Ministry of Truth was to destroy photographs and alter documents, remaking the past to fit the needs of the present. But 1984 came and went, along with Soviet communism. In the age of the Internet, nobody could tamper with the past that way. Could they? </p>
<p> Yes, we can. In fact, two weeks ago, <em> <b> Slate </b> </em> did. We altered four images from recent political history, took a fifth out of context, and mixed them with three unadulterated scenes. We wanted to test the power of photographic editing to warp people's memories. </p>
<p> To read the results of our experiment, click <a href="http://www.slate.com/id/2254054"> here </a> . </p>Thu, 03 Jun 2010 13:31:00 GMThttp://www.slate.com/blogs/humannature/2010/06/03/how_slate_edited_history.htmlWilliam Saletan2010-06-03T13:31:00ZNews and PoliticsHow Slate Edited History211100603001William SaletanHuman NatureHuman Naturehttp://www.slate.com/blogs/blogs/humannature/archive/2010/06/03/how-slate-edited-history.aspxfalsefalsefalseCutting Cornershttp://www.slate.com/blogs/humannature/2010/05/04/cutting_corners.html
<p> Kevin Williamson, the deputy managing editor of <i> National Review </i> , has written a <a href="http://corner.nationalreview.com/post/?q=YWYyMDgzODQ3NTE0NTliNmJmM2RmZTdiY2VjOGU4YTg="> curious blog post </a> at <i> NR </i> 's &quot; <a href="http://corner.nationalreview.com/"> The Corner </a> .&quot; He says yesterday's <b> <i> Slate </i> </b> piece about <a href="http://www.slate.com/id/2252685/"> partisan echo chambers </a> ignored close-mindedness on the left. He calls me &quot;a liberal guy&quot; who &quot;can find almost nothing to criticize other than the (tendentiously described, if not outright mischaracterized) intellectual shortcomings of those who hold opinions other than his own.&quot; </p>
<p> To prove the point, Williamson then quotes me—and carefully removes the parts where I criticized the left. Check it out: </p>
<p> <b> Williamson's clipped quote #1: </b> </p>
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<p> 6. Conservatives who see the epistemic-closure conversation as a political threat describe politics as a &quot; <a href="http://www.redstate.com/hogan/2010/04/22/epistemic-nonsense-count-me-on-team-levin/"> team </a> &quot; contest. ... </p>
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<p> <b> What Williamson clipped out after the ellipses: </b> </p>
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<p> I've seen the same dynamic on the left, where internal critics are dismissed as &quot; <a href="http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&amp;address=364x1382185"> concern trolls </a> .&quot; </p>
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<p> <b> Williamson's clipped quote #2: </b> </p>
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<p> 7. Some writers have turned the epistemic-closure conversation into a debate over which party is more smug. Conor Friedersdorf, a blogger at <a href="http://theamericanscene.com/"> the American Scene </a> , aptly <a href="http://theamericanscene.com/2010/04/14/-weaseling-out-of-things-is-important-to-learn-it-s-what-separates-us-from-the-animals-except-the-weasel-"> mocks their hypocrisy </a> : &quot;There may be a problem in our thinking, but the important thing to focus on is that the other guys are worse.&quot; [Jonah] Goldberg, a perpetrator of this blame-deflecting tactic .... </p>
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<p> <b> What Williamson clipped out after the ellipses: </b> </p>
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<p> is right about one thing: Epistemic closure isn't unique to any era or faction. It's a problem &quot; <a href="http://blog.american.com/?p=12631"> for all human associations and movements </a> .&quot; Challenging your community's delusions is your responsibility, whether that community is CPAC or <a href="http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2010/04/whats-the-matter-with-fox-news/38736/"> Jeremiah Wright's church </a> . </p>
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<p> <b> Another line Williamson clipped out: </b> </p>
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<p> Then MSNBC <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/22/business/media/22msnbc.html"> booted guest host Donny Deutsch </a> off the air after he used two MSNBC anchors to illustrate left-wing rage. </p>
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<p> As a longtime fan of Rich Lowry, Ramesh Ponnuru, Jonah Goldberg, and other writers at <i> NR </i> , I'd like to believe that these omissions are just oversights or unavoidable casualties of excerpting a longer article. But I'm having trouble mustering that defense for Williamson. He clipped quote #2 <i> in the middle of a sentence </i> to hide from <i> NR </i> readers the fact that <i> the next words </i> were an endorsement of Goldberg's observation that close-mindedness is <i> not </i> just a conservative problem. In so doing, he also neatly removed my criticism of Jeremiah Wright's church. Having done this, he derisively and dishonestly titled his post, &quot;Because Liberals By Definition Cannot Be Closed-Minded.&quot; </p>
<p> None of the ellipses in what I've written above are mine. They're all Williamson's. </p>
<p> I challenge Williamson or the editors of <i> NR </i> to defend his use of the ellipses. </p>
<p> &nbsp; </p>Tue, 04 May 2010 13:44:00 GMThttp://www.slate.com/blogs/humannature/2010/05/04/cutting_corners.htmlWilliam Saletan2010-05-04T13:44:00ZNews and PoliticsCutting Corners211100504001William SaletanHuman NatureHuman Naturehttp://www.slate.com/blogs/blogs/humannature/archive/2010/05/04/cutting-corners.aspxfalsefalsefalseSexting and Adulteryhttp://www.slate.com/blogs/humannature/2010/04/07/sexting_and_adultery.html
<p> Everyone with an Internet connection now knows plenty about Tiger Woods' sex life. But we don't know it from a bimbo getting caught in a hallway. We know it from his texts. He treated his phone as a private channel, a place where he could hide his darkest thoughts from the world. Instead, the phone manifested and published them. His trysts are gone. His marriage is on the rocks. But his texts? They're immortal. </p>
<p> More <a href="http://www.slate.com/id/2250071/"> here </a> . </p>Wed, 07 Apr 2010 12:32:00 GMThttp://www.slate.com/blogs/humannature/2010/04/07/sexting_and_adultery.htmlWilliam Saletan2010-04-07T12:32:00ZNews and PoliticsSexting and Adultery211100407001William SaletanHuman NatureHuman Naturehttp://www.slate.com/blogs/blogs/humannature/archive/2010/04/07/sexting-and-adultery.aspxfalsefalsefalseEggonomics 101http://www.slate.com/blogs/humannature/2010/03/29/eggonomics_101.html
<p> For every 100-point increase in average SAT score, women at a college&nbsp;are offered an average of $2,350 more for their eggs. There's no mystery about what's going on here. It's the logic of the marketplace. At the grocery store, you pay more for bigger chicken eggs. At colleges, you pay more for smarter human eggs. </p>
<p> More <a href="http://www.slate.com/id/2249098/"> here </a> . </p>Mon, 29 Mar 2010 12:20:00 GMThttp://www.slate.com/blogs/humannature/2010/03/29/eggonomics_101.htmlWilliam Saletan2010-03-29T12:20:00ZNews and PoliticsEggonomics 101211100329001William SaletanHuman NatureHuman Naturehttp://www.slate.com/blogs/blogs/humannature/archive/2010/03/29/eggonomics-101.aspxfalsefalsefalseWhen Virtual Reality Killshttp://www.slate.com/blogs/humannature/2010/03/15/when_virtual_reality_kills.html
<p> The Korean couple left their real daughter at home, alone, while they spent their days at an Internet caf&eacute;. Or rather, they spent their days in cyberspace. Once a day, they returned to the physical world to feed their daughter powdered milk. Then they went back to the world they cared about. </p>
<p> One day, after a 12-hour stint online, they visited the physical world and found their baby dead. </p>
<p> More <a href="http://www.slate.com/id/2247465/"> here </a> . </p>Mon, 15 Mar 2010 18:18:00 GMThttp://www.slate.com/blogs/humannature/2010/03/15/when_virtual_reality_kills.htmlWilliam Saletan2010-03-15T18:18:00ZNews and PoliticsWhen Virtual Reality Kills211100315001William SaletanHuman NatureHuman Naturehttp://www.slate.com/blogs/blogs/humannature/archive/2010/03/15/when-virtual-reality-kills.aspxfalsefalsefalseAbortion, Guns, and Racial Hypocrisyhttp://www.slate.com/blogs/humannature/2010/03/08/abortion_guns_and_racial_hypocrisy.html
<p> There's something odd about the billboard campaign against aborting black babies. The child who appears beside the text is fully born. Abortion doesn't kill such children. What kills them, all too often, is shooting. If you wanted to save living, breathing, fully born children from a tool of extermination that is literally targeting blacks, the first problem you would focus on is guns. They are killing the present, not just the future. But the sponsors of the billboards don't support gun control. They oppose it. </p>
<p> More <a href="http://www.slate.com/id/2247172/"> here </a> . </p>Mon, 08 Mar 2010 16:42:00 GMThttp://www.slate.com/blogs/humannature/2010/03/08/abortion_guns_and_racial_hypocrisy.htmlWilliam Saletan2010-03-08T16:42:00ZNews and PoliticsAbortion, Guns, and Racial Hypocrisy211100308001William SaletanHuman NatureHuman Naturehttp://www.slate.com/blogs/blogs/humannature/archive/2010/03/08/abortion-guns-and-racial-hypocrisy.aspxfalsefalsefalse